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Shouldn't that be "Discoverer of Quarks"? There were there before Murry Gell-Man.

• mhh__ 7y ago
  The standard model is not the be all and end all of physics , so the quarks may not be fundamental. It's therefore not meaningless to say e.g. invented (The quark model is a model that works but it is a model)
  • SpikeDad 7y ago
    Well perhaps but regardless he didn't create quarks. He discovered their existence. No different than discovering the atom - it was there before people discovered it and so were quarks whether or not they're fundamental particles. Technically he could have invented the theory of quarks I guess.
    • mhh__ 7y ago
      That's what I mean. The Quarks were partly a mathematical guess to encapsulate the known patterns in hundreds of composite particles